Month: April 2012

Santo Domingo, 16 mar (EFE).-Dominican Republic today banned lobster fishing in the country for the next four months in order to preserve its existence seriously threatened in recent years, official sources said. The local government issued a decree that explains that the measure prohibits the capture, processing and meat or undeclared mass tenure and commercialization of the crustacean species, shrimp, stone and MOM lobster. The Ordinance said that the ban applies from March 1 to June 30 of each year, “in line with the regional ban within the framework of Sica-Ospesca agreements”, signed by Central America and many nations of the Caribbean. The official measure grants within five days to persons and entities possessing mass of lobster or lobster living in captivity, to make his statement of existence before the Dominican Council of fisheries and aquaculture (Codopesca), for purposes of control. Between the motivations of the provision, laying down that populations of lobster in Dominican Republic show “clear signs of overexploitation”, which has caused a decrease of copies offered for sale to the...

MEXICO City (Reuters) – bad weather and the use of herbicides in the Flyway of the monarch butterfly in Canada and United States beat the number of copies that came to Mexico to Hibernate last year, said environmentalists Thursday. Mexico recorded that monarchs colonies occupied 2.89 hectares of forest in the 2011/12 cycle, representing a 28 percent less from the little more than 4 hectares of the run-up, said Luis Fueyo, head of the National Commission of protected natural Areas (Conanp). The recent data of surface occupied by the monarch is the third lowest since researchers began to keep a register in 1993. “Canada and United States have to do much more to conserve the monarch butterfly in their breeding areas, said at the same press conference Omar Vidal, director at World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Mexico. “The use of herbicides affects a plant that is the asclepiadea, where the monarch larvae feed on”, explained. Fueyo said, on carried out surveys to the butterflies, they have found residues of herbicides used mainly in plantations of soybeans and cotton in United States. In 2000, Mexico created a stockpile of nearly 56,000 hectares in the Western State of Michoacan and part of the State of Mexico, area year after year reached butterflies forming vibrant orange clouds. The Government and the WWF have managed to almost eradicate the illegal logging, which for years...

Washington, 15 mar ( EFE).-EE.UU. It will launch Next Monday a national campaign in English and Spanish against tobacco, which used stunning ads with images of quitters with illnesses contracted because of his addiction. The initiative, under the name “quitters” Councils, will tell stories of former addicts who suffer from diseases and disabilities associated with smoking, and the effects this has on their families, according to detailed today in a statement the centres for the Control and Prevention ( CDC), a federal institution. Ads rely on stories as Annete, of New York, diagnosed of cancer at the age of 52, which displays a deep scar on the back of the House and gives the viewer a recommendation: “once they removed a lung, avoid breathing deeply”. “Be careful not to cut off around the hole in the throat”, advises in another message Shawn, diagnosed at the age of 46 of throat cancer and that appears in the image shaving with sequelae in the neck of a tracheotomy. Ads will be disseminated since Monday on television and radio, on the internet and in theaters, in the written press and on billboards around the country for at least 12 weeks. Its leaders explained that posts will focus on throat, heart attacks, accidents and lung cancer stroke, Buerger disease and asthma. Include a toll-free number and a web site to receive help to...

Port-au-Prince (Reuters) – two effective from Pakistan United Nations peacekeeping were sentenced to a year in prison for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy, after being found guilty in a Pakistani military trial carried out in Haiti, authorities said Monday. The spokesman of the UN Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg said that a Pakistani military court judges came to the impoverished Caribbean nation to hold the trial which resulted in the condemnation of the soldiers last week. Both were found guilty of the violation of the child, which occurred on January 20 in the Northern Gonaives city Both troops, who were not identified by name, were discharged from the army of summarily and sentenced to a year behind bars in their country of origin, said the UN spokesman. “The UN was informed last week by Pakistani authorities on the verdict, but the Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) United Nations had no involvement in the military judicial process which was led by the military judges in Pakistan,” he added. This is the first time that members of the UN military forces deployed in Haiti are tried and sentenced within the borders of the country. The Mission of UN peacekeepers has faced a problem of ever-increasing in Haiti image, with some of its members accused?responsibility for the introduction of a deadly cholera epidemic in the country hit by an earthquake in 2010. Several...

Paris, 9 March ( EFE).- A team of researchers has developed a new global map of Earth crust through observation and applications provided by the satellite enjoyment, said today the European Space Agency (ESA). Known as mold area, located between the Earth’s outermost part, bark, and the first 50 kilometers of depth, place which concentrate resources, such as natural gas, oil and minerals was observed in investigation, dubbed Project GEMMA,. This map measures the depth of this area of the planet, as well as allowing better understand the interior of the Earth and gravity with unprecedented resolution. Enjoyment satellite images show the Earth with a precision never reached before, thus contributing to better understand the circulation of the oceans, keys to determine changes in the terrestrial energy and marine levels. GEMMA project improves the projections made earlier, that to rely on data collected after the analysis of the earthquakes or gravity were inadequate. The team of scientists responsible for GEMMA was directed by the Italian expert Daniele Sampietro and funded by the Research Center “Politecnico di Milano” (Italy) and by ESA....